WRITER'S BLOCK: YES TO DAILY WRITING

Writing daily is important despite the fact that everyone may have a different writing style.  Daily writing is important to keep your writing muscle alive.  While you may never forget how to write, you can get rusty if you stay away too long.   Like the biker or driver who has not been on wheels for long enough that when they first re-engage the activity, it takes a while to get going with confidence.

Withdrawing from daily writing rarely happens either consciously or all at once.  It's a day by day occurrence.  First you may not feel like writing on a particular day, and so you don't push yourself to sit down.  Then, it turns into two days.  And three days.  You see where this is going.  And, before you know how it happened, you find you haven't written in so long, according to you, that it's hard to simply sit down and take pen to paper or fingers to computer.

Years ago I had stopped exercising — though I kept writing — and at some point I noticed I didn't feel physically well.  And, it affected by emotions as well.  Eventually I got back into exercising and have not let go of it mostly because I have an active experiential memory of what I was like without it.  I'm not willing to risk letting go of writing.   I hope it is the same for you.  Or, if you have… that you will push yourself to pick up that pen and put it to paper.  Or sit down at your computer and put your fingers on the keys.  You will get over the hump.  And you will keep on keeping on writing.